From "jumping clown" to political backbone - eight years of fighting for dignity

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——From the SCA5 in California to the dismissal of the ultra-left academic committee in San Francisco to see Chinese participation in politics

Chinese immigrants to the United States tend not to ask politics. Everyone is dedicated to working hard and earning money to support the family. Parents with children spend a lot of energy on their children's education. As a result, in 2014, a bill called SCA5 suddenly appeared in California to amend the California Constitution and overturn California's color-independent college admissions system. The Chinese immigrants were shocked. The constitution passed through the referendum actually said that it would be changed. What should I do? At that time, I had just finished my master's degree, and I had no idea what SCA5 was or what Affirmative Action (AA) was.

I didn't hear about it until a few years later. I just knew that the Chinese in California had a fight with the state over their children's schooling, and the last bill didn't pass. I later heard that the Chinese complained to the Obama administration that Harvard and Yale were discriminating against Asian applicants.

At that time, I didn't understand that it was a protest and a complaint about the child's schooling. As for that? I think the Chinese are making a fuss. At that time, the "Chinese selfishness theory" was widely rumored, claiming that the Chinese were harming the interests of other ethnic groups for their own interests. I hear it and it makes sense.

Later, in 2017, there was a bill called Asian subdivision in Massachusetts. I was doing my PhD in public policy at the time, and a friend showed me the bill and asked me what I thought of it as an industry insider.

Although I don't understand politics, I understand data collection. This Asian subdivision is just ridiculous to me. The proponents made hype about the benefits of this data, but I analyzed them one by one and found that they were all untenable. Not only is there no benefit, but the risk is still huge, and it might make the Asian-American community even more marginalized. I am a scholar, and I want to convince people with reason, so I went to meet the sponsor of the bill, a Chinese named Chen, and wanted to talk to him about the disadvantages of the bill. I was so confident I could convince him that I was taunted by him. He called me "that Chinese woman with big glasses" in an email back to my husband. This is the first time I've been offended by racial and gender rhetoric in America.

Later, when I went to other venues to express my opinion, I was shocked to find that my friends and I were described in the local newspaper as "impure motives", "selfish", "harming other non-privileged Asian ethnic groups" ”, even directly saying that I am helping “white supremacists.” I was so shocked. This hat is snapped on. The attitude of these native-born, articulate Asians with media, politicians, and NGO connections to Chinese immigrants is blatant contempt. In their eyes, we are a group of selfish and selfish hillbillies.

At that time, when we interviewed MPs, almost no one wanted to see them. There were people who wanted to see us, and I also felt that the MPs and aides did not see us as people who contributed their expertise, but as a group of helpless and pitiful people.

Because we protested everywhere, spoke out against it everywhere, and were splashed with sewage everywhere, I really feel that we are really pitiful. Then the hearing came out of nowhere, and we hurriedly prepared and mobilized. The hearing began at 1:00 pm. In the morning, a large number of people came from our side, and the supporters could not even see a single person. After the hearing officially started, the supporters suddenly appeared. They came late, but spoke early. After speaking one after another for 3 hours, the first one on our side spoke. We protested with the hearing chairperson. The chairperson said that the order of speeches she received was like this, and she just called by the number.

We had over 800 people that day. The auditorium was filled with Chinese people with a sticker against the Asian subdivision on their chests, waving the slogan inside together. This is the first time I feel proud of being Chinese since I came to the United States.

After the hearing, leaders of Asian-American academics, political circles, and NGOs abused us through various publicity channels. Say we pay for hearings, pull people from out-of-state, incite fear, and that privileged Chinese living in the suburbs oppress Asians of other races. In a fit of rage, I filed a complaint against an Asian teacher at Harvard who spearheaded the disinformation. Unsurprisingly no results. At that time, it was repeatedly said that my opposition to the Asian-American subdivision was a pretense, and my opposition to affirmative action was the real purpose.

That's when I remembered the group of Californians who were anti-SCA5 a few years ago. I was slandered and abused in exactly the same way as they were. If I feel like I've been wronged, then the Chinese in California should be wronged too. It doesn't matter what specific issues we oppose, it doesn't matter what each of us is politically, as long as we are immigrants from China, these people can humiliate us.

Turns out this was just the beginning. The case of discrimination against Asians in Harvard admissions will soon begin, and the famous leftist media "Atlantic Monthly" published an article criticizing WeChat as a hub for rumors. The subtitle of the article is even more impressive.

"Wechat is the monster. There is nothing like this on Earth." WeChat is a monster, nothing in the world is worse than it! Look at the picture of the article again. There is only one word in my mind to describe the Chinese image in the text.

Jumping beam clown.

The left-wing media, which has always been politically correct, have no basic respect for the entire Chinese immigrant group.

The Asian-American subdivision in Massachusetts died again and again in the Chinese revolt, and then the Connecticut subdivision supporters seemed to give up their efforts. At this time, war broke out in Washington state again, and Washington state also wants to amend the constitution to allow admissions based on skin color. Politicians have drawn party lines and hurriedly voted to amend the constitution.

Within a month, the Chinese raised millions of funds, solicited signatures, and literally pulled the constitutional amendment proposal to the ballot referendum. In the end, the anti-I1000 side won by a very narrow 51% advantage.

The leftist media scolded again. It is said that these self-owned Chinese people are on the side of white supremacy, hate black people, and are tools and thugs for white supremacists to destroy the unity of people of color. We are doing things for the white masters behind them. In a word, the Chinese are a group of mindless front-end thugs who are encouraged, misled, and exploited because of greed and selfishness.

The money is basically donated by the Chinese, and the volunteers are also done by the Chinese. As a result, we are not even qualified to be a big villain! Just be a kid!

Another year later, California's affirmative action Prop 16, which allows color-based admissions, hiring, and bidding, is back. Meanwhile, the Black Lives Matter movement changed racial political opinion across the United States in a matter of days because of the death of George Floyd. The outside world asserts that this California constitutional amendment will definitely be passed, and the opponents will not only be arrogant, but will be considered to hate blacks. As a result, the Chinese took the lead and joined other ethnic groups to raise more than 1 million yuan to fight against the luxury team supported by 30 million yuan. A lot of this money was spent on spreading rumors and smearing. I've seen a video that literally associates opponents of the bill with torch-wielding 3Ks and neo-Nazis.

In America's deepest blue state, Prop16 was beaten 57 percent to 43 percent. At this time, the left media began to have neutral reports and some reflections on affirmative action.

A few days ago, the city of San Francisco held an election to remove three far-left academic committees. In the dark blue city, more than 70 percent of voters supported removal, and one was removed by 79 percent of voters. Unsurprisingly, the biggest organizer of this event is again Chinese immigrants.

I think, this time, the Chinese can finally be a villain in an upright manner. I thought I would see a large number of articles accusing the Chinese of misleading San Francisco citizens through false news. As a result, in the New York Times, the big left media, an article titled "You have to give us respect (you must respect us)" talked about the important contribution of Asian Americans in this successful removal.

Wechat is again in the spotlight. I quote a passage from the article:

“During the campaign, organizers used WeChat, the Chinese-language messaging app, to offer everything from detailed instructions on how to fill out a ballot to organizing the deployment of volunteers in Chinatown, where lion dances and drumming exhorted residents to vote.”

"During the event, organizers used the Chinese texting app wechat to provide everything from detailed instructions on how to fill out the ballot to organizing the deployment of volunteers in Chinatown, where lion dances and drum beats persuade residents to vote."

WeChat has transformed itself into a tool for promoting political participation for groups without political status. WeChat is still the same WeChat, and the Chinese are still those Chinese. In less than 4 years, we have gone from demons and clowns to the heroes of today's school committee who lead the people of San Francisco to drive away the rebellious school committee! One of the ousted school committees said it was a victory for white supremacy, and the Democratic mayor said there was no need to listen to these ousted people.

I carefully searched the reports on the recall, and all the reports on the Chinese were positive. The photos used in many articles are Chinese and English bilingual signs holding high the recall of the Chinese people.

In these articles, the reporter did not shy away from the local Lowell gifted high school's abolition of the entrance exam and a lottery instead to increase racial diversity, and its provocation among Chinese people. It was the public outrage over the cancellation of the entrance examination that led the Chinese to take the lead in leading the recall. There is not a single article that says the Chinese are selfish again. These articles say that the Chinese value their children's education.

After eight years of struggle, the media has finally laid out this very simple fact without any political leanings.

The political participation of Chinese across the United States complements each other, and each victory increases the confidence of Chinese in other regions. California first had SCA5, then Asian subdivisions, and then subdivisions went to the East Coast, then sued Harvard, and later Washington and California affirmative action. The overwhelming victory of San Francisco, the highlight of Chinese grassroots participation in politics.

Thank you San Francisco and California Chinese!

This is just the beginning. Just a few days after the removal victory, a few friends and I met with a left-leaning Democratic congressman in Massachusetts to discuss opposing the "critical ethnic studies" bill (note: this bill and the controversial The Critical Race Theory, which teaches racial oppression in primary and secondary schools, is of the same kind).

One of our members said that the recall election in San Francisco showed that some radical practices were off-limit.

We said, let’s write a bill to add the history of ethnic minorities to the textbooks for primary and secondary schools next year. Let’s not engage in the oppression of these races. Let's talk about the real history of American minorities, both the dark and the light.

He said, okay.

Back to that question I had a few years ago. It's a protest and a complaint about the child's schooling. As for it?

Spending millions, collecting signatures in the wind and rain, enduring attacks and abuse, as for?

If it's really just for the sake of children going to school, it's really not. It can be said that we have been tortured along the way. Everyone has experienced personal attacks, slander, slander from the power class, and experienced the loss of dignity in the face of power.

In the past eight years, the Chinese grassroots, through their continuous establishment of organizations, participation in political science popularization, and voter education, have grown from a political pariah that everyone can step on to today's American political backbone. In the past, we were afraid that others would know that it was us Chinese who "did bad things", and we wanted to hide it. Now we publish articles in English newspapers, contact reporters for interviews, and declare loudly, "We did this good thing, and the United States has to thank us."

This is a thorny road to dignity.

We have indeed come this way for our children, because if a generation of immigrants lived a life of undignified political pariah, wouldn't the children grow up to be ashamed of their "self-serving" parents?

I used to wonder what they would think of me when I had kids if they knew that my mom and her friends were planning to fight the "help unprivileged other Asians" subdivision bill. Is it once again using the privileges of the Chinese to oppress other vulnerable groups of Asians, or is it a lot of effort to protect the rights and interests of all?

I think the San Francisco victory has the answer.

Mo Shang YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/MOSHANGUSA